James Carlson wrote:
The RBridges project is now open:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/rbridges/
This project, based on research by Radia Perlman, will deliver a new
bridging mechanism into OpenSolaris. This will implement the
protocols now under development in the IETF's TRILL working group.
We're at the very beginning of the effort -- just now scoping out what
work we'll do, and how we'll do it -- but it's obvious that there's a
lot of work to be done here. If you're interested in participating,
now is the time to start reading the (lengthy) background information
and thinking about what parts interest you.
General discussion about RBridges and TRILL on Solaris should, for
now, go to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. The
development team will meet on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing
list (open archives, but closed membership).
If closed membership lists are to be the way of the future
then I have a couple of requests:
* please do *NOT* cc open membership lists when sending
email to them - we get bounces about "cannot send email"
blah blah blah - a problem that is outside of _our_ control
since we can't subscribe to make it go away. The other
"fix" is to stop cc'ing the closed list, resulting in part or
all of the thread no longer going to the closed list.
* think twice about whether or not your project is actually
part of _OPEN_Solaris by doing this. It looks more like
a demonstration rather than something that invites
participation - and participation is what we're looking
for here, isn't it?
* if these kind of lists become any more prevalent, it'll be time
to beat up opensolaris-discuss about it. This *isn't* how
open source works, even if it is how things happen inside
of Sun. Most open source projects, and especially the very
active ones, run wth open "developer" lists as well as open
discussion lists.
And most importantly, something else to bear in mind...
* if someone reads something on a closed membership list
and wants to discuss it, they're forced to bring it to an
open list, irrespective of the detail related to the
discsussion, kind of diluting the purpose of the closed
list.
...or in other words, there are lots of downsides to using
closed membership lists in terms of "open"solaris, with few
benefits except for the team itself, so please think twice
before using them on opensolaris.org.
Darren
(already removed rbridges-dev from cc list)
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